KABUL, Afghanistan — It's been a rough start for Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. After surviving a combative Senate confirmation battle, he jumped on a military plane to Afghanistan and was hit … more

WARREN, Ohio — Investigators were focused on speed as a key factor in the crash of a sport utility vehicle carrying eight teenagers that smashed into a guardrail and flipped over into a swampy … more

NARAHA, Japan — Two years after the triple calamities of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ravaged Japan's northeastern Pacific coast, debris containing asbestos, lead, PCBs — and perhaps … more

LONDON — Even without modern-day temptations like fast food or cigarettes, people had clogged arteries some 4,000 years ago, according to the biggest-ever study of mummies searching for the … more

SAN FRANCISCO— Stress does bad things to the heart. New studies have found higher rates of cardiac problems in veterans with PTSD, New Orleans residents six years after Hurricane Katrina and Greeks … more

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University administrators secretly searched the emails of 16 deans last fall, looking for a leak to reporters about a case of cheating, two newspapers reported. The … more

Shelly Sachwitz stood waiting in the crowded lobby of Perkins Restaurant & Bakery carrying one grandchild with her left arm and holding the hand of another with her right. Her daughter, Jaclyn, put their name in for a table for five and made her way back through the crowd to wait with her family. more

When joining the military, there are many different roles you can land in. You could be a medic, a pilot or right in the heart of combat. more

There may not be enough time in the school day to accomplish all that school trustees want to do under goals they established in August. But that is a dilemma school officials will look closer at in the coming months as they progress toward those academic goals for students. more

Students can win scholarship prizes if they win an art contest sponsored by the VFW Post 7756 Ladies Auxiliary Ninth- through 12th-graders can compete in the Young American Creative Patriotic Art Contest, and the local winner’s entry will be forwarded to the state competition. The local winner will get $100, second place will get $75 and third place $50. more